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Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Mon, 26 Sep 1994, part 1
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X-RQ-ID: Intro
This is the RuneQuest Daily Bulletin, a mailing list on
the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's
world of Glorantha. It is sent out once per day in digest
format.
More details on the RuneQuest Daily and Digest can be found
after the last message in this digest.
X-RQ-ID: index
6364: pheasant = (Nick Eden)
- Posting the Daily
6365: sstair = sstair@cs.utep.edu
- Cults of Prax (x2)
6366: Argrath = Argrath@aol.com
- RQ 4 availability
6367: mcarthur = (Robert McArthur)
- First use of Death in the world
6368: 100270.337 = (Nick Brooke)
- Styx Water
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From: pheasant@cix.compulink.co.uk (Nick Eden)
Subject: Posting the Daily
Message-ID:
Date: 25 Sep 94 09:58:12 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 6364
This may be letting an old cat out of the bag, but....
A couple of weeks ago there was discussion about a
rec.games.frp.runequest newsgroup. I can see that this might have
problems, as not everyone on the Daily has usenet access, but there's a
counter question.
I've recently joined frp.misc again and there's the daily sitting there,
a few days old this time, making me pay to download it twice. Why?
Just about anyone capable of reading the daily on usenet can get the
daily mailed to them, and I assume those that can be bothered will - that
way they can contribute to the discussions without having all their
postings appear several days old.
The rest of the world either doesn't care about the runequest or gets it
twice.
Could we not take the Daily off the usenet and simply post a message
along the lines of
'The RuneQuest Daily is available from....
The Sunday 25 September 1994 mailing included articles on.....'
that would alert all the punters without wasting our phone bills and BBS
charages?
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From: sstair@cs.utep.edu
Subject: Cults of Prax (x2)
Message-ID: <9409251825.AA21624@cs.utep.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 94 18:25:32 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 6365
After having paid many clams for a copy of Cults of Prax
at the Origins '94 auction, I recently found (and bought) a
different copy at Wargames West.
The difference between the two versions is minor, and
appear to be confined entirely to the front and back covers.
On the first the title just reads 'Cults of Prax' but the
second also has '15 Religions for RuneQuest'. The first cover
has artwork by 'Swenston' and is mainly tan while the second
has a low-res map of Prax and is mostly yellow. The back
covers are textually very similar although the second has the
sentence 'Cults of Prax is a companion to Cults of Terror'
which may indicate that it is a later printing.
Please, can anyone illuminate me on the differences between
these two printings?
--
Stephen 'Steve' Stair
sstair@cs.utep.edu
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From: Argrath@aol.com
Subject: RQ 4 availability
Message-ID: <9409251953.tn97536@aol.com>
Date: 25 Sep 94 23:53:39 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 6366
Nick Eden says:
>Martin Crim lists very sound reasons for not emailing people the
>RQ4 rules. Anyone know if they are on an FTP site anywhere, or
>failing that could Martin be bribed into putting them onto one
>if he is the official Gaurdian?
I'm not the official guardian, and I don't know the answer to
your first question but tend to doubt it. The last version of
RQ4 I saw was in typeset format, and was only being distributed
in hardcopy (and not at all until the controversy shook out). Contact Oliver
Jovanovic at Gray@aol.com, 73567,1725@compuserve.com, or 680 Fort Washington
Ave., New York, N.Y. 10040. Remember that he's the guy who crossposted any
angry missive to Steven Martin to this list a few months ago regarding Greg
Stafford's objections to his draft of the rules, and act accordingly. Or
maybe somebody else could post the address for the RQ4 discussion group, and
you could inquire there.
--Martin
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From: mcarthur@fit.qut.edu.au (Robert McArthur)
Subject: First use of Death in the world
Message-ID: <199409260603.QAA24597@ocean.fit.qut.edu.au>
Date: 27 Sep 94 02:03:57 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 6367
The first paragraph of the Nomad Gods rules (after the intro) says that
Prax was the first place death was [used or known] in the world. Anyone's
thoughts on the matter? Obviously in getting it from the Underworld to the
surface it was (ab)used by a number of beings (GL term for 'dem 'dere god
thing'o's) but where was it known for the first time on the surface?
Giving full reign to those whose life is Gloranthan speculation,
May Llankhor Mhy learn to spell (his/her name :-) and bless this query
Robert McArthur
PS. Actually I think the words were "death came into the world in Prax"
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From: 100270.337@compuserve.com (Nick Brooke)
Subject: Styx Water
Message-ID: <940926065755_100270.337_BHL60-1@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 94 06:57:55 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 6368
The other thing you should know is that Styx water is like Lethe water in
classical mythology: if you touch it, you forget things. This is why great
heroes are dipped in the Styx while they're still babies! If you can work
out how to wash yourself all over without forgetting who you are (and how
to use a sword), you're cleverer than I am.
Of course, being near the Styx makes everything rather dark and confusing
(like being in Hell anyway, I suppose), so accidents while trying to gather
her water must be common. Of course, nobody remembers why it went wrong...
I remember Greg saying that the spirits of dead elves swim across the Styx,
emerging on the other side as "blanks" ready to be reincarnated/reborn.
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Nick
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